Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 273 281
Rank change year-on-year +14 +8 -83
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 487 557 704
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.77% 1.07% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 1.16% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 207 284 470
10th Percentile £41,588 £47,500 £44,875
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,495 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,047 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £125,500 £96,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50,453 47,821 60,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.27% 91.48% 88.85%
Number of salaries quoted 29,778 22,900 47,030
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £76,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 27 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 27 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +3 432 £70,047 +2.50% 296
London +87 249 £85,000 +6.25% 68
UK excluding London -72 177 £62,500 -3.85% 275
Work from Home +13 172 £75,000 +15.38% 184
South East -35 53 £57,500 -11.54% 92
North of England +1 42 £76,250 +8.93% 50
Midlands -44 36 £60,500 -3.20% 36
West Midlands -1 24 £57,500 -9.80% 18
North West +7 21 £76,250 +8.93% 20
Yorkshire 0 20 £72,500 +41.46% 22
East of England +30 17 £60,100 -17.10% 48
South West -34 14 £62,500 -3.29% 24
Northern Ireland -5 11 £75,000 +26.20% 5
East Midlands -39 10 £80,000 +33.33% 18
Wales +6 5 £55,000 -7.45% 16
Scotland -16 3 £42,000 -29.33% 16
North East -9 1 - - 9

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.70%) Confluence
2 5 (1.03%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.62%) CMS
4 2 (0.41%) CICS
4 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.41%) MTS
5 1 (0.21%) Drupal
Applications
1 16 (3.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.82%) Trello
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (3.08%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.03%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.82%) Shopify
5 3 (0.62%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.21%) Magento
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 66 (13.55%) SaaS
2 54 (11.09%) AWS
3 48 (9.86%) Azure
4 26 (5.34%) Power Platform
5 19 (3.90%) Pulumi
6 17 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (3.29%) GCP
8 13 (2.67%) GitHub
8 13 (2.67%) H2O.ai
8 13 (2.67%) OpenShift
9 12 (2.46%) PaaS
10 10 (2.05%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (1.23%) Snowflake
12 4 (0.82%) Collibra
12 4 (0.82%) Google Analytics
12 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (0.82%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
13 3 (0.62%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (0.41%) Azure AI
14 2 (0.41%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.13%) Broadband
2 10 (2.05%) HTTP
3 8 (1.64%) SD-WAN
4 6 (1.23%) RTP
4 6 (1.23%) WAN
4 6 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (1.23%) Wireless
5 5 (1.03%) LAN
6 4 (0.82%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.62%) Multicast
8 2 (0.41%) 5G
8 2 (0.41%) ATM
9 1 (0.21%) 4G
9 1 (0.21%) Bluetooth
9 1 (0.21%) GPRS
9 1 (0.21%) Intranet
9 1 (0.21%) LTE
9 1 (0.21%) Network Security
9 1 (0.21%) Value-Added Service
9 1 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (5.95%) Relational Database
2 24 (4.93%) NoSQL
3 23 (4.72%) Power BI
3 23 (4.72%) RDBMS
4 20 (4.11%) Metadata
5 14 (2.87%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.44%) SQL Server
6 7 (1.44%) Tableau
7 6 (1.23%) SAP BW
8 5 (1.03%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.62%) Big Data
10 3 (0.62%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.41%) DB2
12 1 (0.21%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 31 (6.37%) JIRA
2 19 (3.90%) Jaeger
3 4 (0.82%) ERwin
4 3 (0.62%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (0.62%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.21%) ER Studio
General
1 185 (37.99%) Finance
2 180 (36.96%) Social Skills
3 106 (21.77%) Marketing
4 96 (19.71%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (9.45%) Banking
6 44 (9.03%) Legal
7 41 (8.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 39 (8.01%) Financial Institution
9 33 (6.78%) Retail
10 25 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
10 25 (5.13%) Manufacturing
11 24 (4.93%) Law
12 22 (4.52%) Digital Economy
13 20 (4.11%) Public Sector
14 19 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
16 16 (3.29%) Electronics
17 11 (2.26%) Publishing
17 11 (2.26%) Telecoms
18 10 (2.05%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 134 (27.52%) Product Manager
2 77 (15.81%) Lead
3 61 (12.53%) Senior
4 31 (6.37%) Senior Manager
5 25 (5.13%) Product Owner
6 23 (4.72%) Senior Product Manager
7 21 (4.31%) Product Lead
8 20 (4.11%) Product Management Director
9 19 (3.90%) Digital Product Manager
10 16 (3.29%) Change Manager
11 13 (2.67%) Security Engineer
12 12 (2.46%) Data Manager
13 11 (2.26%) Developer
13 11 (2.26%) Development Engineer
14 10 (2.05%) Architect
14 10 (2.05%) Senior Development Engineer
14 10 (2.05%) Senior Software Development Engineer
14 10 (2.05%) Senior Software Engineer
14 10 (2.05%) Software Development Engineer
14 10 (2.05%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
1 19 (3.90%) OpenTelemetry
2 17 (3.49%) REST
3 13 (2.67%) Keras
3 13 (2.67%) PyTorch
3 13 (2.67%) TensorFlow
4 12 (2.46%) YAML
5 6 (1.23%) .NET
6 4 (0.82%) FastAPI
6 4 (0.82%) Flask
6 4 (0.82%) Node.js
7 3 (0.62%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.62%) EDI
7 3 (0.62%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (0.62%) React
7 3 (0.62%) Vue
8 2 (0.41%) JSON
8 2 (0.41%) OAuth
8 2 (0.41%) SAML
8 2 (0.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 87 (17.86%) Product Ownership
2 53 (10.88%) Onboarding
3 39 (8.01%) Self-Motivation
4 30 (6.16%) Management Information System
5 16 (3.29%) Data Centre
6 12 (2.46%) Security Posture
7 11 (2.26%) Social Media
8 10 (2.05%) Public Cloud
9 9 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.64%) Cloud Native
11 7 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.44%) IoT
11 7 (1.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 7 (1.44%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.23%) Mobile App
13 5 (1.03%) Algorithms
13 5 (1.03%) Data Fabric
13 5 (1.03%) Driving Licence
14 4 (0.82%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.52%) Linux
2 19 (3.90%) Unix
3 5 (1.03%) Windows
4 2 (0.41%) zOS
5 1 (0.21%) Android
5 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (51.75%) Roadmaps
2 206 (42.30%) Agile
3 136 (27.93%) Product Roadmap
4 111 (22.79%) Product Strategy
5 108 (22.18%) Problem-Solving
6 94 (19.30%) Stakeholder Management
7 92 (18.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 81 (16.63%) Information Security
9 80 (16.43%) AI
10 79 (16.22%) Mentoring
11 78 (16.02%) Analytics
12 75 (15.40%) User Experience
13 64 (13.14%) Decision-Making
14 60 (12.32%) Product Vision
15 58 (11.91%) Project Management
16 57 (11.70%) Business Development
17 56 (11.50%) Computer Science
18 54 (11.09%) Coaching
18 54 (11.09%) User Stories
19 52 (10.68%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 49 (10.06%) Python
2 35 (7.19%) Java
2 35 (7.19%) SQL
3 23 (4.72%) Go
4 20 (4.11%) JavaScript
5 19 (3.90%) Bash
6 12 (2.46%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.03%) C#
8 3 (0.62%) C++
9 2 (0.41%) COBOL
9 2 (0.41%) JCL
9 2 (0.41%) PHP
9 2 (0.41%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.21%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.21%) R
10 1 (0.21%) Scala
10 1 (0.21%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 109 (22.38%) Degree
2 51 (10.47%) Master's Degree
3 44 (9.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 33 (6.78%) Security Cleared
5 21 (4.31%) AWS Certification
5 21 (4.31%) SC Cleared
6 9 (1.85%) MBA
7 8 (1.64%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.64%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.44%) PMP
9 5 (1.03%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.82%) SAP Certification
11 3 (0.62%) CSPO
11 3 (0.62%) HNC
12 2 (0.41%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.41%) CISM
12 2 (0.41%) CISSP
13 1 (0.21%) CFA
13 1 (0.21%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.16%) QA
2 21 (4.31%) Data Quality
3 18 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (3.29%) Accessibility
5 14 (2.87%) NIST
6 13 (2.67%) NCSC
7 6 (1.23%) GDPR
7 6 (1.23%) ISO 20022
8 5 (1.03%) IFRS
8 5 (1.03%) SLA
9 4 (0.82%) PMO
9 4 (0.82%) SEPA
10 3 (0.62%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.41%) COREP
11 2 (0.41%) FINREP
11 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.21%) GMP
12 1 (0.21%) PSD2
System Software
1 23 (4.72%) Docker
2 3 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.62%) vSphere
3 2 (0.41%) RACF
4 1 (0.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (4.72%) Kubernetes
1 23 (4.72%) Terraform
2 19 (3.90%) Ansible
2 19 (3.90%) Argo
2 19 (3.90%) Kustomize
2 19 (3.90%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.21%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 43 (8.83%) Microsoft
2 33 (6.78%) Google
3 19 (3.90%) Salesforce
4 17 (3.49%) Databricks
5 13 (2.67%) Dell
5 13 (2.67%) NVIDIA
6 11 (2.26%) SAP
7 8 (1.64%) Oracle
8 7 (1.44%) Adobe
8 7 (1.44%) Foundry
9 6 (1.23%) Zoho
10 4 (0.82%) Sage
10 4 (0.82%) YouTube
11 3 (0.62%) Apple
11 3 (0.62%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.62%) CQG
11 3 (0.62%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.62%) Reuters
11 3 (0.62%) Tenable
11 3 (0.62%) Trayport